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词汇 antivivisection
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Definition of antivivisection in English:

antivivisection

adjectiveˌantɪˌvɪvɪˈsɛkʃ(ə)n
  • attributive Opposed to the use of live animals for scientific research.

    反动物活体科研的

    antivivisection campaigners
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The animal lover may find this book a little cold, but it is a contribution to the antivivisection debate that is desperately needed if the movement is ever to turn the minds of those who will only listen to ‘science’.
    • The Society for the Protection of Animals Liable to Vivisection, the first antivivisection organisation in the world, was founded in London in 1875 by Frances Power Cobbe, a philanthropist and crusading journalist.
    • The antivivisection lobby has in the past claimed that we can use computer models of organisms instead of real animals.
    • Not that government capitulation to public pressure generated by antivivisection campaigns is anything particularly new.
    • If you read his late essays, especially the volume of essays called Religion and Art, you see that Wagner is involved in antivivisection societies, animal rights, the whole notion of suffering in the world.

Derivatives

  • antivivisectionism

  • nounˌantɪvɪvɪˈsɛkʃənɪz(ə)m
    • In The Old Brown Dog, an analysis of the psychology and sociology of antivivisectionism in Edwardian society, Coral Lansbury notes that opposition to animal experimentation among the poor and working classes was often closely linked to fear of one's corpse being sold for dissection.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It was the first book that abandoned the traditionally apologetic and defensive stand of antivivisectionism in favor of a lucid and formidably documented attack on animal-based medical research, accusing such research as being not only useless, but damaging to the point where modern medicine is widely being regarded as the principal cause of disease today.
      • She devoted more time to favored causes, including antivivisectionism and the protection of minors, and her letters afford the reader an in-depth perspective on these and other public issues and on the personal values underlying her opinions.
      • In response to antivivisectionism in the US, the American Medical Association began a lobbying campaign to counteract the efforts of animal activists, seeking to prevent limits being placed on medical researchers.
      • Along the way, Spira learned that more than 100 years of antivivisectionism hadn't ever stopped a cruel experiment.
  • antivivisectionist

  • noun & adjectiveantɪvɪvɪˈsɛkʃənɪst
    • Indeed, the antivivisectionist ancestors of today's animal rightists attempted to stop the research of Louis Pasteur that led to the discovery of the rabies vaccine.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • For example, she points out that women established the first antivivisectionist societies in both England and America, and that most members were also women.
      • Debate over the ethics of human research was stimulated by antivivisectionists in the nineteenth century.
      • We meet early antivivisectionists, such as Frankenstein author Mary Shelley and Anna Kingsford, who studied medicine in order to make their voices heard.
      • Lederer contends that medical scientists used stories about such "heroic" acts to defend themselves against criticism from antivivisectionist groups--a defense they needed.

Definition of antivivisection in US English:

antivivisection

adjective
  • attributive Opposed to operations on live animals for scientific research.

    反动物活体科研的

    antivivisection campaigners
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The antivivisection lobby has in the past claimed that we can use computer models of organisms instead of real animals.
    • The animal lover may find this book a little cold, but it is a contribution to the antivivisection debate that is desperately needed if the movement is ever to turn the minds of those who will only listen to ‘science’.
    • Not that government capitulation to public pressure generated by antivivisection campaigns is anything particularly new.
    • If you read his late essays, especially the volume of essays called Religion and Art, you see that Wagner is involved in antivivisection societies, animal rights, the whole notion of suffering in the world.
    • The Society for the Protection of Animals Liable to Vivisection, the first antivivisection organisation in the world, was founded in London in 1875 by Frances Power Cobbe, a philanthropist and crusading journalist.
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